Legal Opinion

Bob G. Wilkins v. Baptist Healthcare System, Inc. Life Insurance Company of North America

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided August 4, 1998No. 97-5074PublishedCited by 496 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

COLE, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff, Bob Wilkins, appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants, Life Insurance of North •America (“LINA” or “the Plan Administrator”) and Baptist Healthcare System, Inc. (“Baptist Healthcare”), and the district court’s denial of Wilkins’s motion to alter or amend the judgment, pursuant to Fed R. Civ. P. 59(e), in this ERISA action for disability benefits under the Baptist Healthcare Long Term Disability Plan (“the Plan”).

Wilkins raises the following issues on appeal': (1) whether the district court erred in affirming LINA’s denial of…

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